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[caption id="attachment_1412" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Our tree on Christmas Eve"][/caption]Christmas was so much fun this year. The best yet, I have to say! Once you have a child, it brings a whole new meaning to Christmas.  I've always...

I suck. I really, really do. I don't know what my problem is, but it is seemingly impossible for me to keep this blog updated. I try... I think about it all the time. But something always happens... something urgent needs to be dealt with with work, I'm...

Low-Fat Chicken Burritos 1 small onion, chopped 2 small garlic cloves, minced 2 tsp olive oil 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks 1 12 oz can of black beans, rinsed and drained 1 1/2 cups of salsa 1/2 t. chili...

Today is Prematurity Awareness Day. Prematurity has been escalating steadily and alarmingly over the past two decades. In fact, the rate of premature birth increased by 36 percent between the early 1980s and 2006. One out of eight babies is born...

So... Jack spent a grand total of two days in preschool. Nothing like calling the preschool to check on your child and hearing him crying hysterically in the background. I called more than an hour after Brian left, too. :-( You know everyone who tells...

[caption id="attachment_1363" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="Big boy's first day of preschool!"][/caption] Brian just took Jack off for his first half-day of preschool. This will be his first time away from home in someone else's care. I...

[caption id="attachment_1352" align="alignleft" width="202" caption="Skeleton Jack!"][/caption] Jack is still just a liiiiittttle bit too young to go trick or treating (and he's usually asleep by 7, anyway!), so we took him to a kids' Halloween party...

Funny text conversation between me and my friend Megen, a...

[caption id="attachment_1343" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="I don’t feel right when you’re gone away"][/caption] I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away I keep your photograph; I know...

[caption id="attachment_1330" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="My sweet boy"][/caption] My poor little Cheetokins... he's gone. He died in my arms. He's gone and he took a piece of me with him. I feel like I can't breathe. I am not prepared to...